Posted on 09/09/2009 12:46:50 PM PDT by BGHater
Well, see, that's the thing. With enough documents in there, you could try matching it up against phrases that exist and make words. You can check words, pages, whatever until some sense starts to reveal itself.
You would simply need many source documents and they'd have to be based on an educated guess.
It has been 65 years since the three unencoded messages were captured, and two of three have been broken. The third still awaits discovery.
The three messages have been crunched on by a similar DC to F@H here:
http://www.bytereef.org/m4_project.html
The M4 project is just over 1/2 through the third message, which has still never been cracked.
The wiki can be found here:
http://distributedcomputinginfo.pbworks.com/M4
If your systems are running F@H 24/7 and you would like to donate a system over to M4, instructions can be found above.
At some point (or already) the Morris documents will be handled by a computer, once enough textual materials are computerized/digitized to allow fast sorting of all possibilites, based on how the 2nd page was solved, if in fact it can be decrypted.
Lost stuff woth big bucks eh?
How about
On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet.
I bet the FedGov would pay big for that....
Remember too it is in a corrosive environment, so cut that to less than half of the average shelf-life.
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